In the wake of Netflix’s shock announcement that it had emerged out of Warner Bros.’ sale season victorious last week, frankly very few people outside of Netflix itself were really happy at the news . Perhaps chief among those detractors was Paramount, after its own bid failed… but they’re not going to let that failure go quietly.

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, whose arrival on the Hollywood scene has ruffled feathers ever since Skydance’s $8 billion takeover of Paramount went through earlier this year, confirmed to CNBC this morning that the studio planned to approach Warner Bros.’ investors with a direct bid. Coming in at $30 per share (just over Netflix’s ultimately accepted bid of approximately $28 a share, totaling an almost $83 billion sale), Paramount’s new $108 bill

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